as. in the past seven years. over three million homes. and eleven million people displaced. syrians made homeless by. sharing their stories. in the ruins of a dream and this time on al-jazeera. we're going to be tough on russia until they decide to change their behavior. the u.s. imposes new sanctions on russia for alleged meddling in the twenty's sixteen election moscow says it will retaliate.

along down jordan this is al jazeera lawyer from doha also coming up an exodus from syria's eastern ghouta as thousands of state fighting in the besieged area seven years after the war began. a search for survivors after a pedestrian bridge collapse is that a university in miami police say several people have been killed. xico is accused of torture an investigation into dozens of missing students. the u.s. has announced new sanctions against russia targeting more than a dozen people for trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the trump administration is threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes behavior russia says it will retaliate a white house correspondent kimberly help it reports. last july the g twenty summit when u.s. president donald trump met with vladimir putin he said it was an honor to meet the russian president days or ninety eight and in august when the u.s.

congress passed legislation to sanction russia iran and north korea trunk grudgingly signed it into law but failed to sanction moscow for alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen u.s. election until now on thursday the us treasury sanctioned twenty four russian entities and individuals including two russian intelligence agents for interfering in the twenty sixteen presidential vote the announcement coming just as the white house issued a joint statement with the united kingdom germany and france blaming russia for the nerve agent attack in the u.k. leaving a former russian spy and his daughter comatose to a very sad situation it certainly looks like the russians were behind it something that should never ever happen and would take an adverse seriously the u.s. says thursday's sanctions are part of a broad effort target what it calls russia's malicious cyber activity and critical

infrastructure clued in america's energy grid nuclear facilities water supply and aviation industry it also targets in the lead russian troll factory the u.s. justice department recently singled out for the reported interference in the twenty six thousand vote for months members of congress have been pressing the trump administration to act questioning why it has delayed responding to what it calls russian aggression and we're still waiting for the president president trump to order one word public criticism for what putin is doing to the u.s. and democracies around the world i say to president trump your silence speaks on this issue. the white house disputes that accusation i think you can see from the actions that we've taken up until this point we're going to be tough on russia until they decide to change their behavior this move by the trumpet ministration will immediately freeze russian assets in the u.s.

and block the sanction to individuals from traveling to the united states only adding to the tension between the two countries kimberly help at al-jazeera washington the investigation into whether russia meddling in the twenty six thousand election has moved a little closer to home for the u.s. president the company that oversees the president's business interests has reportedly been ordered to hand over documents relating to russia u.s. special counsel robert muller has subpoenaed the trump organization a particle again as the latest from washington d.c. if you concrete things we know coming out of the robert mueller special counsel investigation one is that he is focused on what russians and russian companies did during the election and now we think he's turning his attention to what if anything the trumpet administration the trump campaign did to try and encourage that for the first time according to the new york times he is said to subpoena that is a legal document to the trump organization requesting all paperwork that is

involved with anything to do with businesses and russia now the president has previously denied doing any business in russia dismissing that same perhaps he sold some condos to some russians but robert muller is going to want to see if that is in fact the case it's important to point out that he issued a subpoena that is legally binding that means if he knows that there's documents of anyone in the trump organization doesn't hand them over during this whole process well they could be legally liable held in contempt so moeller definitely sending a message that the investigation is entering a new phase looking at the president's personal business and he said in the message with the subpoena that serious. well as you mentioned earlier the u.s. has joined britain france and germany in blaming russia for the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in the u.k. the country's released a joint statement saying there's no plausible alternative explanation for the attack on wednesday britain expelled twenty three russian diplomats and suspended

all high level contacts with moscow are u.k. correspondent bonnie phillips reports the prime minister visits seoul spring a small english cathedral city not accustomed to this level of international attention we do hold russia culpable for this brazen brazen act and despicable act that's taking place on the streets of what is such a remarkable city and while she met the people of seoul spree her ministers continued to press home their argument that russian guilt is indisputable something by the way in the kind of smug sarcastic response that we've heard from the russians that to me betray that indicates their fundamental guilt they want to civil tenuously to deny it and yet at the same time to glory in it and the reason they've chosen this this nerve agent is to show that it's russia and

from the defense secretary words that may cause even more offensive. frankly russia should go away should shut up a joint statement with the americans french or german as described events and salt spray as an assault on british sovereignty and from nato this this is the first of fence sieve use of a nerve agent on alliance territory since nato's foundation all of us agree that attack will sic clear breach of international norms and agreements this is unacceptable it has no place in a civilized world. as for the russian reaction contemptuous of british accusations . the british prime minister has made several statements over the last few days in parliament they were completely insane accusations against the russian federation against our country against our nation so now it's london bracing itself for the

retaliation that moscow has promised and with everyone in the british government assuming that vladimir putin is about to be reelected the seams no prospect of anglo russian relations improving for years to come but to be philip's al-jazeera westminster lawrence lee has more now from moscow. given how absolutely vicious the rhetoric has been between the u.k. and russia or of the last forty eight to seventy two hours and he continued on thursday from the british government it is striking that if anything the russian side has slightly held back a bit on thursday yes of course they still continue to condemn the british actions yes they will expels and british diplomats but they're not going to do it yet they going to wait and see and it seems to me they're trying if anything to regain a little moral high ground why would i want to do that well on one level clearly they can say to the british look you don't know who the we boys and scribble how do you know that this is true you can prove it you're being hysterical but if that

then if the united nations the americans and the french and the germans all say well actually we agree with the british then on the month the russian position it also i think will leave the russians feeling very very isolated and it has led to a lot of the resurgence of a lot of old drives and very very very bad blood against the russians the new american sanctions because alleged meddling in the election the european union still furious with russia over the exception of crimea the downing of the passenger jet of ukraine all these things were never properly result and it seems like all these countries are now using the poisoning as an opportunity to say to russia we just had enough of you in this can ever carry on in the same way now and what's believed to be the largest exodus and one day in syria's seventy a war tens of thousands of people have fled eastern ghouta most left the town of how maria was rebels say they have we taken in heavy fighting but after nearly four weeks of relentless bombardment syrian government forces are inching closer to

recapturing the rest of the enclave almost twelve hundred fifty civilians have been killed many of those children al-jazeera as alan fischer has more now from gaziantep near the turkey syria border. they had a choice stay and face more bombardment or leave to an uncertain future they chose to leave it started with hundreds it grew to thousands grabbing what they could carry what they could stuff into vehicles and a mind of a home they may never see again my night as it is there is no water no medicine that could be provided to our children that even food situation is miserable. that we're so happy because we're safe right now in the hands of the army we were living in a jail not in the gates are we not. a mass exit a bizarre procession on the seventh anniversary of the start of the syrian civil war was leaving came from how maria a city that's been under attack for three solid weeks and the area once controlled

by anti assad forces are completely surrounded by their enemies something like this had been expected since the syrian government forces backed by the russians effectively cut guta in three they've used their military pressure to force people to leave i mean i'll be looking at a similar solution in other parts of the area the regime offensive against used to alter and include which has been the seat for the last seven years i'm just finally you know falling bit into government that isn't about negotiation that is really where the regime is using exploiting the opportunity it has the other fronts are moralists. but even as a civilian streamed out of the besieged enclave is strikes and aerial bombardments reported elsewhere in good time. and in the north of the area in a place controlled by josh el islam a convoy of trucks into the tone of the twenty five more days getting enough food need for twenty six thousand people for one month once more there were no medical

supplies allowed in well i mean i mean normally you are doing that marise where they were sleeping in the corridor of this house it's too difficult to walk inside because of the huge number of displaced people who are here. people leaving will be identified and processed and offered some aid this will be seen as a major victory for the syrian government for the people who managed to walk out it will be seen as survival alan fischer al jazeera on the tukey city of border. thousands of civilians are also filling their homes in syria's northern a freeness turkey's military closes in people have been coming on to trucks and trying to draw on cots to get away those staying in the city are buying food to prepare for a long siege turkey's trying to retake the area from the kurdish. which it considers a terrorist group a pedestrian bridge has collapsed on top busy highway in the u.s. state of florida killing several people at least eight cars are trapped under the wreckage of florida international university in miami the student crossing was

installed on saturday and was due to open next year. what was soon to be. a stable part of the public to between the city and university has actually turned out to be a national tragedy our hearts are here extended out to those that the victims that were actually able to transport it away as well as those that will be walking away from the scene. iran's foreign ministry spokesman has described the saudi crown prince as a delusional naive person was no idea of politics he was reacting to mohamed bin salmond's first u.s. television interview during the discussion on c.b.s. the crown prince said his country will develop nuclear weapons if iran does. you've been rivals for centuries at its heart what is this rift about is it a battle for islam they are and they said iran is not a rival to saudi arabia that he was its army is not among the top five armies in the muslim world the saudi economy is larger than the iranian economy and iran is

far from being equal to saudi arabia but i've seen that you called the ayatollah khomeini the new hitler of the middle east absolutely why. you did it because he wants to expand he wants to create his own project in the middle east very much like hitler who wanted to expand it at a time many countries around the world and in europe did not realize how dangerous hitler was until what happened happened i don't want to see the same events happening in the middle east does saudi arabia need nuclear weapons to counter iran assert directing them to saudi arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb but without a doubt if iran developed a nuclear bomb we will follow suit as soon as possible let's also to come here not just there including. the. angry outburst of grief on the streets of rio de janeiro after the killing of a popular politician. and a bitter taste robert mugabe says he never believed zimbabwe's new president would turn against him stay with us.

from cool brisk north in fuel. to the warm tranquil waters of southeast asia. welcome back across central and southern parts of china we've got some rain across eastern areas but you'll notice the winds coming from the east not direction from the south not direction and whether to come together we're going to get a coming together of their masses some ascent and therefore some rain forming so heavy rain is likely cross this region certainly global impact and temperatures to change to just seventeen degrees further so still looking fine for vietnam where there are twenty six agrees just wanted to showers across the rest of indochina so let's move on down into the southeastern part of asia where for the philippines we've got fine conditions i think across much of luzon manila there looking bright with highs of thirty two some heavy showers across borneo and we've got some heavy showers across

the southeastern portion of the southern indonesian archipelago but for jakarta and java it looks that it should be largely dry and fine having said that the showers will come back again as we head through into start the weekend from the north through the mill a peninsula up towards the gulf of thailand where the conditions generally looking fine bangkok should be draw and bright with highs of thirty three degrees heading across into south asia we've got this little circulation of low pressure just stop the so west coast of india so for carolers the risk of showers for the north fine in delhi high seer of thirty three. the weather sponsored by qatar and greece. in a war torn city in iraq a medic documents the stories of the survivors recording their hopes and dreams for a peaceful future after american troops withdrawal. but the conflict is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when i saw him take control and his family are

forced to flee and nowhere to hide a weakness documentary at this time on al jazeera. welcome back a recap our top stories this hour the u.s. imposes new sanctions on russia targeting more than a dozen people are trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the trump administration is threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior russia has vowed to retaliate. tens of thousands of people have fled eastern what's believed to be the largest exodus and one day in syria's seven year war most of the town of hama rio spent the center of heavy fighting in

rebels government forces. and they put a strong bridge just collapsed onto a busy highway in the u.s. state of florida killing several people at least eight cars were trapped under the wreckage at florida international university in miami. thousands of brazilians have been protesting against what appears to be the targeted killing of a city councilor audio franco and had dr anderson gomez was shot dead in their car on wednesday in rio de janeiro the thirty eight year old was a popular public official and a critic of killings by the police in some of rio's poor districts ability to charge of policing in the city last month. for the. very fact because the day a black woman who was always positive in our fight and had lived in the developer was taken by all this injustice and naturism that exists in rio de janiero we are not going to let it continue marrying out of here marry out of here mary alice here . colombia's government does revive peace talks with the last remaining rebel group

the national liberation army all in talks between the two sides ended in january when the group initiated a tunks just after a temporary ceasefire expired president one month old santos says he's resuming the discussions to save lives ahead of may's presidential election. and colombia has started to investigate and prepare cases of war crimes committed by the fark rebel group victims can now file complaints with the newly created special jurisdiction for peace fog has become a political party to the conflict lasting almost five decades investigation as part of its peace deal with the government. home this is a historic moment which marks the healing of wounds through knowledge meant of truth and responsibility and from this exercise truth through can all and meant allows us not to repeat a history that has been so painful and so cruel for this country asking me and. it almost makes me want to cry for the happiness i feel to see what the president has

done what many should have done and about how many people were killed i lost my father my brothers my life has been tragic. peru's president is facing impeachment for a second time pedro public survived the first bid to remove him from office last december by eight votes well now congress has voted in favor of reopening proceedings following a second bid by opposition m.p.'s the seventy nine year old leader is accused of lying about his ties to brazilian construction giant other bricked which is at the center of a multi-million dollar bribery scandal the vote is planned for next week. the u.n. human rights office has accused mexican authorities of torturing dozens of people while investigating the disappearance of forty three students four years ago it says there's strong evidence some of those arrested were subjected to arbitrate attention and rights violations john holeman has more from mexico city. it was a case that horrified mexico forty three students pulled off of buses by corrupt

mexican police working with a criminal gang they were never seen alive again for months after the capital's main avenue reverberated to describe. alive you took them alive we want them back now authorities are accused not just of failing the students but the suspects in the case. a new u.n. report says there are strong indications that officials thirty pool of those the attorney general's office detained and. the detainees denounce in the detail and consistent why the torture that they were exposed to beatings as fixation with plastic bags electric shocks waterboarding torture threats to write their wives and daughters. it all puts more doubt on investigators findings mostly based on suspect confessions that the students were killed and burned in this rubbish dump many believe those conclusions were rushed out in the hope of putting

a full stop on the controversy but the case has continued to haunt of thirty's already accused of what in human rights abuses or many other occasions if those at the attorney general's office want to remind us of the case it's further damage an already tarnished reputation they need look no further than the poem in a protest camp devoted to the disappeared students that's right on their doorstep it put out a statement casting doubt on the un's conclusions it said the ongoing investigation and the evidence recorded in our case files the. is not support the conclusions of the report. many here simply won't wash especially after the un revealed that the same attorney general's office had failed to hold any officials responsible and until now we have no knowledge that anyone's been hold responsible for these acts of torture and other violations of human rights the officials who

are responsible remain unpunished many will see that not as a surprise but another indication that authorities are more ready to protect them so when the public john hoeven i was dizzy to mexico city robert mugabe's spoken out for the first time since being ousted as zimbabwe's president mugabe gave an interview to foreign media from his home in harare has called his removal from office last november a coup saying he never thought emerson and gaga would turn against him the ninety four year old described his ousting as a military takeover and says many assume the presidency illegally. he. had. been brought into government. and whose life work. is. to save.

with hang. we would be. against. staying in zimbabwe where a strike by junior doctors is into its second week they're refusing to go back to work until the government meets their demands for higher pay and improve working conditions the opposition says the situation has worsened since i came to power and the nurses say they may join the nationwide walkout as well as a report from harare. harare central is one of the largest hospitals in zimbabwe doctors have been on strike for two weeks to demand more money and better working conditions patients say they don't know when things will return to normal. some of us pain if doctors don't help us then our health will deteriorate police think

about what we are going through many state run hospitals across the country are struggling financially gini doctors say it's frustrating working in them with a lack of equipment and drugs the doctors are some of the worst paid in africa. ending three hundred twenty nine dollars in a month and he said that's. far too good. to be able to. afford the particular services that we offer as a junior doctor and not able to pay for my medication. or hospital. let alone the. health minister david needs more than one billion dollars to increase salaries and improve resources but the government's broke and there's a shortage of foreign currency nurses and doctors trying to keep things going after patients in some of the wards the doctor strike is getting quite serious is now

into its second week in some public facilities across the country don't even have access to a single drinks. the main opposition. even nelson chamisa says the bobbies health sector has deteriorated since president. robert mugabe in november you can come in and say you are open for business things are happening when they're not happening there. that is unacceptable and wisdom god ways accountable for every day that we've recorded and then god was the biggest challenge is fixing zimbabwe's economy ruined by decades of corruption and mismanagement government ministers are talking to leaders of the striking doctors trying to convince them to return to work overworked and underpaid nurses in public hospitals are also threatening to down tools if that happens the already dire situation could get much worse. hungary's right wing prime minister says western europe is under a migrant invasion that will soon turn native europeans into

a minority that obama was addressing tens of thousands of supporters three weeks ahead of parliamentary elections. and he's openly hostile to refugees and asylum seekers and has made anti immigration policies the focus of his campaign for a third term. victory is almost inevitable for vladimir putin russia's presidential election on sunday but there are seven other challengers on the ballot papers one is reality t.v. star subject an opposition candidate widely considered a kremlin puppet she's held a rally in moscow and announced she would create a new liberal party join the whole report from moscow. previously at home on russia's reality t.v. screens the one time party girl can send your sob jack turned political party girl challenging vladimir putin for the presidency. stuff i didn't think

we need them to stop stealing our freedom and you to stop stealing our common future nonsense. let's share their audience these days less impressed by bling jewelry and branded clothing more interested in what she can do for russian democracy i don't know whether there's something you're. going to separate out or only make or maybe it was. definitely a good start for you out what for the future and about the russian opposition that would she want to win of course not of the seven kremlin approved candidates in this election have any chance of toppling but let me uprooted so what is this. politics all about it seems a long time since t.v. shows like blood and in chocolate featured soap jack as a spoiled rich kid with dubious morals and of the racist spending habit to turn towards opposition politics in the street protests of two thousand and twelve was

as sudden as it was unlikely yet she swapped sports cars for police vans seemingly with these telling al-jazeera that her mission was to save the underdog it's like you know when you see a fight which is a. big guy bowling. you go in and tried to to help. a normal person her name is political solid gold because ten years father anatoly sobchak was putin's mentor before he died in two thousand . jack protection from corruption charges already some believe the younger subject might one day succeed putin able to pay back an old family death by keeping him safe from future prosecution. it's an idea to send his mom herself a senator in russia's upper house rejects. we know the second of putin's friends who everything they have to him me and my family and not

a part of his circle do you believe she has what it takes to be president of russia not now but in the future i'm sure. if so she'll need to prepare for more of this reduced to tears by a barrage of gender based insults in a televised election debate it remains to be seen whether. to swap dirty dancing for the sometimes dirty world of russian politics show the whole al-jazeera moscow olympics is of course on our website there is on your screen is the address on to c.n.n. dot com. time for a quick recap of the headlines here in al-jazeera the u.s. has impose new sanctions on russia targeting more than a dozen people for trying to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election the

trumpet ministrations threatening to keep tough policies in place until moscow changes its behavior russia has vowed to retaliate tens of thousands of people have fled eastern buton what's believed to be the largest exodus and one day in syria's seven year war most left the town of hama reading which has been a scene which been at the center of heavy fighting between rebels and government forces. a pedestrian bridge just collapsed onto a busy highway in the u.s. state of florida killing at least four people nine others remain in the hospital at least eight cars are trapped under the wreckage at florida international university in miami a student crossing was only installed on saturday i was due to open next year. what was soon to be a stable party between the city and university has actually turned out to be a national tragedy our hearts are here extended out to those that the victims that were actually able to be transported away as well as those that will be walking away from the scene. thousands of brazilians have been protesting against what

appears to be the targeted killing of a city councillor mario franco in a drive under some gun as was shot dead in their car on a wednesday in rio de janeiro the thirty eight year old was a popular public official and a critic of killings by police in some of reduced poor districts. colombia's government to survive peace talks with the last remaining rebel group the national liberation army. because the actions between the two sides ended in january when the group initiated attacks just after a temporary ceasefire expired president one manual santa says he's resuming the talks save lives peru's president is facing impeachment for a second time pet republican survived a first bid to remove him from office last december by eight votes sent a nine year old leader is accused of lying about his ties to brazilian construction giant out of breath robert mugabe spoken out for the first time since being ousted the zimbabwe's president he's called is a move from office last november to saying you never thought emerson. would have

turned against him but those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story of watching. britain takes its case against moscow to the u.n. over the poisoning of a former russian spy at a time of friction of an unpredictable white house how will a divided west tackle a resurgent russia which is again the fighting itself at least according to president putin as a great power.